HP Device Manager Doesn't Work in Korora 21

[herdkorps]

In order to install an HP printer, I successfully installed hplip on Korora 21. I then ran the HP Device Manager. The Device Manager opens a window that is entirely blank except for the Window title line and controls. I can't even get the version of HP Device Manager; the hplip version is 3.14.10-9fc21. The program works on both Fedora 19 and Ubuntu 14.04.2 including interfacing to my printer.

The printer is on the network and it says that it is connected to the router. The router agrees.

[csmart]

On Korora 22 GNOME I installed hplip-gui package and ran /usr/bin/hp-toolbox and I got a working GUI. Is that what you tried?

Also, I think that once you have hplip installed, CUPS should auto-discover the printer.

[herdkorps]

More or less. As I understand it, the the hp-toolbox of the hplip-gui package can be started from the launcher and also from the panel. Both of these fail for me.

[csmart]

OK, I'll need to boot up a Korora 21 image, what desktop and arch are you running?

[herdkorps]

Thanks! Using amd64 with xfce.

[jimkp]

Tested on K21 Xfce. Installed hplip-gui and the Device Manager appeared for me. It is looking for devices so I couldn't go any further but the full window appeared.

[herdkorps]

Odd. I have tried rebooting, logging in/out, and reinstalling hplip with no joy. Similar also is that I started by running the program with no HP devices in the beginning.

In any case, thank you very much for the effort.

[jimkp]

Personally I found hplip-gui to be a problem. I had issues controlling my Laserjet with it installed. I removed it and went back to using system-config-printer.

[herdkorps]

Another clue: the empty window cannot be removed directly by clicking the "X" in the window controls. In that case, I get a window not responding message identifying "HP Device Manager" asking if I want to terminate the application.

It also has a second failure mode which it is doing right now. When started from the panel, it immediately aborts, flashing the window for an instant. When started from the launcher, it gives the empty window described earlier.

[jimkp]

Have you tried running from a terminal and looking for errors? On 31 Aug 2015 7:09 pm, "herdkorps" notifications@github.com wrote:

Another clue: the empty window cannot be removed directly by clicking the "X" in the window controls. In that case, I get a window not responding message identifying "HP Device Manager" asking if I want to terminate the application.

It also has a second failure mode which it is doing right now. When started from the panel, it immediately aborts, flashing the window for an instant. When started from the launcher, it gives the empty window described earlier.

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[herdkorps]

No, I haven't but I will because you suggest it.

On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 5:14 AM, jimkp notifications@github.com wrote:

Have you tried running from a terminal and looking for errors? On 31 Aug 2015 7:09 pm, "herdkorps" notifications@github.com wrote:

Another clue: the empty window cannot be removed directly by clicking the "X" in the window controls. In that case, I get a window not responding message identifying "HP Device Manager" asking if I want to terminate the application.

It also has a second failure mode which it is doing right now. When started from the panel, it immediately aborts, flashing the window for an instant. When started from the launcher, it gives the empty window described earlier.

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[herdkorps]

It would seem that you had a good idea there.

When I run:

which hplip-gui

I get:

/usr/bin/which: no hplip-gui in (/usr/lib64/qt-3.3/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/home/linton/.local/bin:/home/linton/bin)

Then when I run:

sudo find / -name hplip-gui | grep -v Permission

I get nothing! So, I cannot do as you ask. Is there some other command that I should be using?

On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 8:52 AM, Linton Floyd linton4@gmail.com wrote:

No, I haven't but I will because you suggest it.

On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 5:14 AM, jimkp notifications@github.com wrote:

Have you tried running from a terminal and looking for errors? On 31 Aug 2015 7:09 pm, "herdkorps" notifications@github.com wrote:

Another clue: the empty window cannot be removed directly by clicking the "X" in the window controls. In that case, I get a window not responding message identifying "HP Device Manager" asking if I want to terminate the application.

It also has a second failure mode which it is doing right now. When started from the panel, it immediately aborts, flashing the window for an instant. When started from the launcher, it gives the empty window described earlier.

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[herdkorps]

I believe that the GUI is run from python scripts but I don't know how to make them execute.

On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 11:36 AM, Linton Floyd linton4@gmail.com wrote:

It would seem that you had a good idea there.

When I run:

which hplip-gui

I get:

/usr/bin/which: no hplip-gui in (/usr/lib64/qt-3.3/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/home/linton/.local/bin:/home/linton/bin)

Then when I run:

sudo find / -name hplip-gui | grep -v Permission

I get nothing! So, I cannot do as you ask. Is there some other command that I should be using?

On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 8:52 AM, Linton Floyd linton4@gmail.com wrote:

No, I haven't but I will because you suggest it.

On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 5:14 AM, jimkp notifications@github.com wrote:

Have you tried running from a terminal and looking for errors? On 31 Aug 2015 7:09 pm, "herdkorps" notifications@github.com wrote:

Another clue: the empty window cannot be removed directly by clicking the "X" in the window controls. In that case, I get a window not responding message identifying "HP Device Manager" asking if I want to terminate the application.

It also has a second failure mode which it is doing right now. When started from the panel, it immediately aborts, flashing the window for an instant. When started from the launcher, it gives the empty window described earlier.

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[jimkp]

Can't you just run hplip-gui?

[herdkorps]

No. That was the point of the command:

which hplip=gui

The result would be "Command not found" meaning that there is no hplip-gui command in the path. I double checked this just now. Is that how you run the GUI?

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Can't you just run hplip-gui?

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[jimkp]

Looking at the desktop file I see the command is hp-toolbox

[herdkorps]

I just noticed something. Here's verbatim what I get from the hplip-gui command:

$ hplip-gui bash: hplip-gui: command not found shell-init: error retrieving current directory: getcwd: cannot access parent directories: No such file or directory

So there is some issue with getting the current directory in the python scripts.

On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 6:41 PM, Linton Floyd linton4@gmail.com wrote:

No. That was the point of the command:

which hplip=gui

The result would be "Command not found" meaning that there is no hplip-gui command in the path. I double checked this just now. Is that how you run the GUI?

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Can't you just run hplip-gui?

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[herdkorps]

I get a similar thing with that too.

$ hplip-toolbox bash: hplip-toolbox: command not found shell-init: error retrieving current directory: getcwd: cannot access parent directories: No such file or directory

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Looking at the desktop file I see the command is hp-toolbox

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[csmart]

What directory are you in and can you read it?

pwd && ls -la

Can you paste your environment?

env

Or at least your path: echo $PATH

[herdkorps]

OK, here goes...

[18:59] linton@captain hplip $ ``bash shell-init: error retrieving current directory: getcwd: cannot access parent directories: No such file or directory shell-init: error retrieving current directory: getcwd: cannot access parent directories: No such file or directory [22:25] linton@captain hplip $ pwd pwd: error retrieving current directory: getcwd: cannot access parent directories: No such file or directory shell-init: error retrieving current directory: getcwd: cannot access parent directories: No such file or directory [22:25] linton@captain hplip $ ls -la total 0 shell-init: error retrieving current directory: getcwd: cannot access parent directories: No such file or directory [22:26] linton@captain hplip $ env XDG_VTNR=1 XDG_SESSION_ID=1 SSH_AGENT_PID=1358 XDG_GREETER_DATA_DIR=/var/lib/lightdm-data/linton HOSTNAME=captain IMSETTINGS_INTEGRATE_DESKTOP=yes GLADE_PIXMAP_PATH=:/usr/lib64/glade3/modules GPG_AGENT_INFO=/home/linton/.gnupg/S.gpg-agent:1392:1 XDG_MENU_PREFIX=xfce- SHELL=/bin/bash TERM=xterm-256color HISTSIZE=1000 WINDOWID=25165880 QTDIR=/usr/lib64/qt-3.3 GNOME_KEYRING_CONTROL=/home/linton/.cache/keyring-ES6C4X QTINC=/usr/lib64/qt-3.3/include QT_GRAPHICSSYSTEM_CHECKED=1 IMSETTINGS_MODULE=none USER=linton LSCOLORS=rs=0:di=38;5;33:ln=38;5;51:mh=00:pi=40;38;5;11:so=38;5;13:do=38;5;5:bd=48;5;232;38;5;11:cd=48;5;232;38;5;3:or=48;5;232;38;5;9:mi=01;05;37;41:su=48;5;196;38;5;15:sg=48;5;11;38;5;16:ca=48;5;196;38;5;226:tw=48;5;10;38;5;16:ow=48;5;10;38;5;21:st=48;5;21;38;5;15:ex=38;5;40:.tar=38;5;9:.tgz=38;5;9:.arc=38;5;9:.arj=38;5;9:.taz=38;5;9:.lha=38;5;9:.lz4=38;5;9:.lzh=38;5;9:.lzma=38;5;9:.tlz=38;5;9:.txz=38;5;9:.tzo=38;5;9:.t7z=38;5;9:.zip=38;5;9:.z=38;5;9:.Z=38;5;9:.dz=38;5;9:.gz=38;5;9:.lrz=38;5;9:.lz=38;5;9:.lzo=38;5;9:.xz=38;5;9:.bz2=38;5;9:.bz=38;5;9:.tbz=38;5;9:.tbz2=38;5;9:.tz=38;5;9:.deb=38;5;9:.rpm=38;5;9:.jar=38;5;9:.war=38;5;9:.ear=38;5;9:.sar=38;5;9:.rar=38;5;9:.alz=38;5;9:.ace=38;5;9:.zoo=38;5;9:.cpio=38;5;9:.7z=38;5;9:.rz=38;5;9:.cab=38;5;9:.jpg=38;5;13:.jpeg=38;5;13:.gif=38;5;13:.bmp=38;5;13:.pbm=38;5;13:.pgm=38;5;13:.ppm=38;5;13:.tga=38;5;13:.xbm=38;5;13:.xpm=38;5;13:.tif=38;5;13:.tiff=38;5;13:.png=38;5;13:.svg=38;5;13:.svgz=38;5;13:.mng=38;5;13:.pcx=38;5;13:.mov=38;5;13:.mpg=38;5;13:.mpeg=38;5;13:.m2v=38;5;13:.mkv=38;5;13:.webm=38;5;13:.ogm=38;5;13:.mp4=38;5;13:.m4v=38;5;13:.mp4v=38;5;13:.vob=38;5;13:.qt=38;5;13:.nuv=38;5;13:.wmv=38;5;13:.asf=38;5;13:.rm=38;5;13:.rmvb=38;5;13:.flc=38;5;13:.avi=38;5;13:.fli=38;5;13:.flv=38;5;13:.gl=38;5;13:.dl=38;5;13:.xcf=38;5;13:.xwd=38;5;13:.yuv=38;5;13:.cgm=38;5;13:.emf=38;5;13:.ogv=38;5;13:.ogx=38;5;13:.aac=38;5;45:.au=38;5;45:.flac=38;5;45:.m4a=38;5;45:.mid=38;5;45:.midi=38;5;45:.mka=38;5;45:.mp3=38;5;45:.mpc=38;5;45:.ogg=38;5;45:.ra=38;5;45:.wav=38;5;45:.oga=38;5;45:.opus=38;5;45:.spx=38;5;45:_.xspf=38;5;45: GLADE_MODULE_PATH=:/usr/share/glade3/pixmaps XDG_SESSION_PATH=/org/freedesktop/DisplayManager/Session0 XDG_SEAT_PATH=/org/freedesktop/DisplayManager/Seat0 SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/tmp/ssh-OFJcq6OnQFOW/agent.1229 SESSION_MANAGER=local/unix:@ /tmp/.ICE-unix/1388,unix/unix:/tmp/.ICE-unix/1388 XDG_CONFIG_DIRS=/etc/xdg DESKTOP_SESSION=xfce MAIL=/var/spool/mail/linton PATH=/usr/lib64/qt-3.3/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/home/linton/.local/bin:/home/linton/bin QT_IM_MODULE=xim PWD=/usr/share/hplip XMODIFIERS=@im=none KDE_IS_PRELINKED=1 LANG=en_US.utf8 KDEDIRS=/usr PS1=[\033[0;34m][$(date +%H:%M)] [\033[0;32m]\u[\033[0;36m]@[\033[0;32m]\h[\033[0;34m] \W[\033[0;32m]$(parse-git-branch.sh) [\033[0;34m]$[\033[00m] GDMSESSION=xfce HISTCONTROL=ignoredups SSH_ASKPASS=/usr/libexec/openssh/gnome-ssh-askpass SHLVL=4 HOME=/home/linton XDG_SEAT=seat0 GDL_PATH=+/usr/share/gnudatalanguage LOGNAME=linton QTLIB=/usr/lib64/qt-3.3/lib DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=unix:abstract=/tmp/dbus-aDNo1I72d9,guid=749c51a10426f4dd56b7bd6c55e2270b XDG_DATA_DIRS=/usr/local/share:/usr/share LESSOPEN=||/usr/bin/lesspipe.sh %s XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/1000 DISPLAY=:0.0 GLADE_CATALOGPATH=:/usr/share/glade3/catalogs XAUTHORITY=/var/run/lightdm/linton/xauthority COLORTERM=xfce4-terminal =/usr/bin/env shell-init: error retrieving current directory: getcwd: cannot access parent directories: No such file or directory [22:26] linton@captain hplip $ grep linton /etc/passwd linton:x:1000:1000:Linton Floyd:/home/linton:/bin/bash shell-init: error retrieving current directory: getcwd: cannot access parent directories: No such file or directory [22:27] linton@captain hplip $ echo $HOME /home/linton

On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 8:58 PM, Chris Smart notifications@github.com wrote:

What directory are you in and can you read it?

``bash pwd && ls -la

Can you paste your environment?

env

Or at least your path:

echo $PATH

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[herdkorps]

I've fixed the problem. I will send a full description after I complete it.

Thanks!!!

On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 8:58 PM, Chris Smart notifications@github.com wrote:

What directory are you in and can you read it?

``bash pwd && ls -la

Can you paste your environment?

env

Or at least your path:

echo $PATH

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[herdkorps]

I needed to figure out what command to enter to run the desired python script. So, I got ran the applet to get the dreaded blank window. Then,

ps -aux | grep "hp-"

linton 17521 1.0 1.6 664740 79220 ? S 09:33 0:00 /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/hp-toolbox

Perhaps I need to run as superuser.

[09:36] linton@captain ~ $ sudo /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/hp-toolbox warning: hp-toolbox should not be run as root/superuser.

HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 3.14.10) HP Device Manager ver. 15.0

Copyright (c) 2001-13 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, LP This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software, and you are welcome to distribute it under certain conditions. See COPYING file for more details.

\error: dBus initialization error. Exiting.

OK, if you say so.

[09:37] linton@captain ~ $ /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/hp-toolbox

HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 3.14.10) HP Device Manager ver. 15.0

Copyright (c) 2001-13 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, LP This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software, and you are welcome to distribute it under certain conditions. See COPYING file for more details.

\ HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 3.14.10) System Tray Status Service ver. 2.0

Copyright (c) 2001-13 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, LP This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software, and you are welcome to distribute it under certain conditions. See COPYING file for more details.

error: Unable to open /home/linton/.hplip/hp-systray.lock lock file. warning: Unable to connect to dbus. Is hp-systray running? error: dBus initialization error. Exiting. Segmentation fault (core dumped)

LOL!!! I haven't stimulated a core dump in years! Congratulate me. Anyway, there is a lock file to be dealt with.

[09:37] linton@captain ~ $ ll /home/linton/.hplip/hp-systray.lock -r--r--r--. 1 linton linton 0 Oct 6 2014 /home/linton/.hplip/hp-systray.lock [09:43] linton@captain ~ $ rm !$ rm /home/linton/.hplip/hp-systray.lock rm: remove write-protected regular empty file ‘/home/linton/.hplip/hp-systray.lock’? y [09:44] linton@captain ~ $ /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/hp-toolbox

HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 3.14.10) HP Device Manager ver. 15.0

Copyright (c) 2001-13 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, LP This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software, and you are welcome to distribute it under certain conditions. See COPYING file for more details.

\ HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 3.14.10) System Tray Status Service ver. 2.0

Copyright (c) 2001-13 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, LP This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software, and you are welcome to distribute it under certain conditions. See COPYING file for more details.

/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/init.py:127: RuntimeWarning: PyOS_InputHook is not available for interactive use of PyGTK set_interactive(1)

From here, I was able to connect to the printer via the GUI although I had to use root privilege where I shouldn't have needed to.

Thank you again for all of your help.

Linton

On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 10:30 PM, Linton Floyd linton4@gmail.com wrote:

OK, here goes...

[18:59] linton@captain hplip $ ``bash shell-init: error retrieving current directory: getcwd: cannot access parent directories: No such file or directory shell-init: error retrieving current directory: getcwd: cannot access parent directories: No such file or directory [22:25] linton@captain hplip $ pwd pwd: error retrieving current directory: getcwd: cannot access parent directories: No such file or directory shell-init: error retrieving current directory: getcwd: cannot access parent directories: No such file or directory [22:25] linton@captain hplip $ ls -la total 0 shell-init: error retrieving current directory: getcwd: cannot access parent directories: No such file or directory [22:26] linton@captain hplip $ env XDG_VTNR=1 XDG_SESSION_ID=1 SSH_AGENT_PID=1358 XDG_GREETER_DATA_DIR=/var/lib/lightdm-data/linton HOSTNAME=captain IMSETTINGS_INTEGRATE_DESKTOP=yes GLADE_PIXMAP_PATH=:/usr/lib64/glade3/modules GPG_AGENT_INFO=/home/linton/.gnupg/S.gpg-agent:1392:1 XDG_MENU_PREFIX=xfce- SHELL=/bin/bash TERM=xterm-256color HISTSIZE=1000 WINDOWID=25165880 QTDIR=/usr/lib64/qt-3.3 GNOME_KEYRING_CONTROL=/home/linton/.cache/keyring-ES6C4X QTINC=/usr/lib64/qt-3.3/include QT_GRAPHICSSYSTEM_CHECKED=1 IMSETTINGS_MODULE=none USER=linton

LSCOLORS=rs=0:di=38;5;33:ln=38;5;51:mh=00:pi=40;38;5;11:so=38;5;13:do=38;5;5:bd=48;5;232;38;5;11:cd=48;5;232;38;5;3:or=48;5;232;38;5;9:mi=01;05;37;41:su=48;5;196;38;5;15:sg=48;5;11;38;5;16:ca=48;5;196;38;5;226:tw=48;5;10;38;5;16:ow=48;5;10;38;5;21:st=48;5;21;38;5;15:ex=38;5;40:.tar=38;5;9:.tgz=38;5;9:.arc=38;5;9:.arj=38;5;9:.taz=38;5;9:.lha=38;5;9:.lz4=38;5;9:.lzh=38;5;9:.lzma=38;5;9:.tlz=38;5;9:.txz=38;5;9:.tzo=38;5;9:.t7z=38;5;9:.zip=38;5;9:.z=38;5;9:.Z=38;5;9:.dz=38;5;9:.gz=38;5;9:.lrz=38;5;9:.lz=38;5;9:.lzo=38;5;9:.xz=38;5;9:.bz2=38;5;9:.bz=38;5;9:.tbz=38;5;9:.tbz2=38;5;9:.tz=38;5;9:.deb=38;5;9:.rpm=38;5;9:.jar=38;5;9:.war=38;5;9:.ear=38;5;9:.sar=38;5;9:.rar=38;5;9:.alz=38;5;9:.ace=38;5;9:.zoo=38;5;9:.cpio=38;5;9:.7z=38;5;9:.rz=38;5;9:.cab=38;5;9:.jpg=38;5;13:.jpeg=38;5;13:.gif=38;5;13:.bmp=38;5;13:.pbm=38;5;13:.pgm=38;5;13:.ppm=38;5;13:.tga=38;5;13:.xbm=38;5;13:.xpm=38;5;13:.tif=38;5;13:.tiff=38;5;13:.png=38;5;13:.svg=38;5;13:.svgz=38;5;13:.mng=38;5;13:.pcx=38;5;13:.mov=38;5;13:.mpg=38;5;13:.mpeg=38;5;13:.m2v=38;5;13:.mkv=38;5;13:.webm=38;5;13:.ogm=38;5;13:.mp4=38;5;13:.m4v=38;5;13:.mp4v=38;5;13:.vob=38;5;13:.qt=38;5;13:.nuv=38;5;13:.wmv=38;5;13:.asf=38;5;13:.rm=38;5;13:.rmvb=38;5;13:.flc=38;5;13:.avi=38;5;13:.fli=38;5;13:.flv=38;5;13:.gl=38;5;13:.dl=38;5;13:.xcf=38;5;13:.xwd=38;5;13:.yuv=38;5;13:.cgm=38;5;13:.emf=38;5;13:.ogv=38;5;13:.ogx=38;5;13:.aac=38;5;45:.au=38;5;45:.flac=38;5;45:.m4a=38;5;45:.mid=38;5;45:.midi=38;5;45:.mka=38;5;45:.mp3=38;5;45:.mpc=38;5;45:.ogg=38;5;45:.ra=38;5;45:.wav=38;5;45:.oga=38;5;45:.opus=38;5;45:.spx=38;5;45:_.xspf=38;5;45: GLADE_MODULE_PATH=:/usr/share/glade3/pixmaps XDG_SESSION_PATH=/org/freedesktop/DisplayManager/Session0 XDG_SEAT_PATH=/org/freedesktop/DisplayManager/Seat0 SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/tmp/ssh-OFJcq6OnQFOW/agent.1229 SESSION_MANAGER=local/unix:@ /tmp/.ICE-unix/1388,unix/unix:/tmp/.ICE-unix/1388 XDG_CONFIG_DIRS=/etc/xdg DESKTOP_SESSION=xfce MAIL=/var/spool/mail/linton

PATH=/usr/lib64/qt-3.3/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/home/linton/.local/bin:/home/linton/bin QT_IM_MODULE=xim PWD=/usr/share/hplip XMODIFIERS=@im=none KDE_IS_PRELINKED=1 LANG=en_US.utf8 KDEDIRS=/usr PS1=[\033[0;34m][$(date +%H:%M)] [\033[0;32m]\u[\033[0;36m]@[\033[0;32m]\h[\033[0;34m] \W[\033[0;32m]$(parse-git-branch.sh) [\033[0;34m]$[\033[00m] GDMSESSION=xfce HISTCONTROL=ignoredups SSH_ASKPASS=/usr/libexec/openssh/gnome-ssh-askpass SHLVL=4 HOME=/home/linton XDG_SEAT=seat0 GDL_PATH=+/usr/share/gnudatalanguage LOGNAME=linton QTLIB=/usr/lib64/qt-3.3/lib

DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=unix:abstract=/tmp/dbus-aDNo1I72d9,guid=749c51a10426f4dd56b7bd6c55e2270b XDG_DATA_DIRS=/usr/local/share:/usr/share LESSOPEN=||/usr/bin/lesspipe.sh %s XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/1000 DISPLAY=:0.0 GLADE_CATALOGPATH=:/usr/share/glade3/catalogs XAUTHORITY=/var/run/lightdm/linton/xauthority COLORTERM=xfce4-terminal =/usr/bin/env shell-init: error retrieving current directory: getcwd: cannot access parent directories: No such file or directory [22:26] linton@captain hplip $ grep linton /etc/passwd linton:x:1000:1000:Linton Floyd:/home/linton:/bin/bash shell-init: error retrieving current directory: getcwd: cannot access parent directories: No such file or directory [22:27] linton@captain hplip $ echo $HOME /home/linton

On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 8:58 PM, Chris Smart notifications@github.com wrote:

What directory are you in and can you read it?

``bash pwd && ls -la

Can you paste your environment?

env

Or at least your path:

echo $PATH

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[csmart]

OK, glad you got it sorted although it's strange that you had to use sudo. I wasn't able to reproduce it so not sure there's anything we can do here to fix it. If anyone else has the same problem we can re-look at it.

[herdkorps]

Thanks again for the help you provided.

I think that running the program from the launcher and then the pallet may have caused the problem. (I was not aware at the time that a window had actually been launched.) This could have caused the spurious lock file.

As for the unusual need for permission escalation, this was not the first time in this young installation. During initial updating, one of the packages (which one I don't recall right now) required that I import and run a rpm version directly. Thereafter for several days, I could not update the system unless as root. Oddly and thankfully, this behavior ceased after about a week and no other anomalies other than the hplip one have occurred.

On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 12:03 AM, Chris Smart notifications@github.com wrote:

OK, glad you got it sorted although it's strange that you had to use sudo. I wasn't able to reproduce it so not sure there's anything we can do here to fix it. If anyone else has the same problem we can re-look at it.

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[herdkorps]

With lots of help from jimkp and Chris Smart, the problem is now solved. It probably was not a problem with the distribution but rather how the software reacts in nonstandard usage. Let me explain

When running the GUI from the command line, I noticed something. Here's verbatim what I get from the hplip-gui command:

$ hplip-gui bash: hplip-gui: command not found shell-init: error retrieving current directory: getcwd: cannot access parent directories: No such file or directory

So, there was some issue with getting the current directory in the python scripts. So, I needed to figure out what command to enter to run the desired python script. I ran the applet to get the dreaded blank window. Then,

ps -aux | grep "hp-"

linton 17521 1.0 1.6 664740 79220 ? S 09:33 0:00 /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/hp-toolbox

So, I kill the window using the window controls and enter:

$ /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/hp-toolbox

HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 3.14.10) HP Device Manager ver. 15.0

Copyright (c) 2001-13 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, LP This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software, and you are welcome to distribute it under certain conditions. See COPYING file for more details.

\ HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 3.14.10) System Tray Status Service ver. 2.0

Copyright (c) 2001-13 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, LP This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software, and you are welcome to distribute it under certain conditions. See COPYING file for more details.

error: Unable to open /home/linton/.hplip/hp-systray.lock lock file. warning: Unable to connect to dbus. Is hp-systray running? error: dBus initialization error. Exiting. Segmentation fault (core dumped)

LOL!!! I haven't stimulated Linux/Unix a core dump in years! Congratulate me. Anyway, there was a lock file to be dealt with.

(Also, please forgive the HP application's loquaciousness.

$ ll /home/linton/.hplip/hp-systray.lock -r--r--r--. 1 linton linton 0 Oct 6 2014 /home/linton/.hplip/hp-systray.lock $ rm !$ rm /home/linton/.hplip/hp-systray.lock rm: remove write-protected regular empty file ‘/home/linton/.hplip/hp-systray.lock’? y $ /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/hp-toolbox

HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 3.14.10) HP Device Manager ver. 15.0

Copyright (c) 2001-13 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, LP This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software, and you are welcome to distribute it under certain conditions. See COPYING file for more details.

\ HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 3.14.10) System Tray Status Service ver. 2.0

Copyright (c) 2001-13 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, LP This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software, and you are welcome to distribute it under certain conditions. See COPYING file for more details.

/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/init.py:127: RuntimeWarning: PyOS_InputHook is not available for interactive use of PyGTK set_interactive(1)

From here, I was able to connect to the printer via the GUI although I had to use root privilege where I shouldn't have needed to.

I still do not know why the lock file was there. Perhaps it happened when I started the hplip-gui from the panel when it was already running from the launcher. I don't know.